Blog: Indier Than Thou

Go Ga Ga For Spoon

Aug 19, 2007, 1:23am

First, I would like to apologize for the title of this post. I am sure that a million music journalists have used this lame type of pun for the new Spoon record entitled " Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga " but...I just couldn't help myself. And I wanted to...fit in or something. I've had second thoughts about writing a post about Spoon, because, I mean....are they really that indie? They are on MERGE-technically an independant label started by the band members of Superchunk in 1989, but, aren't they sort of common knowledge?? possibly not. Obviously I [...]

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